Online Course Registration Open Through February 8th!
Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Learning and Your Life

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Call for Proposals!

Add your voice to the 46th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking! Present on your experiences, research, triumphs, and challenges in learning critical thinking concepts and tools, applying them to life and work, teaching them to others, etc.

Proposals due April 30, 2026.

Concise Edition of Critical Thinking Therapy Released

Read Critical Thinking Therapy: Self-Actualization and Happiness Toolbox for Everyone. Like the larger Critical Thinking Therapy book from which it is condensed, this title introduces the application of critical thinking to mental health therapy, but focuses on a smaller number of core  concepts and exercises.

Online Tutoring in Critical Thinking

The Foundation for Critical Thinking now offers one-on-one virtual tutoring that is customized to your needs and goals regarding critical thinking.

Work with one of our tutors over a ten-week period, with assignments between meetings and direct feedback on your work.

Critical Thinking Therapy: Overview & Learning Opportunities

In our pathological world, mental suffering comprises an epidemic of the human spirit. Critical Thinking Therapy assumes that gaining healthy command of one's life requires developing control over one's thinking. Learn about the foundations of Critical Thinking Therapy and training available for both therapists and individuals working alone.

Critical Thinking Therapy Wins BookLife Editor's Pick

Dr. Linda Elder's Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization has received a glowing review from Publishers Weekly's BookLife, and was selected as an Editor's Pick. This book introduces a substantive theory of critical thinking to the field of mental health therapy.

Read the review today.

The 46th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking

Entirely virtual from July 19 - July 24, 2026. For educators, business professionals, students, and anyone who wants to improve their reasoning for better problem-solving and decision-making.

Save the date for the world's 
longest-running critical thinking conference.


I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth . . . with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order . . . being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates every kind of imposture.

~ Francis Bacon (1605)

OUR MISSION

For more than 40 years, our goal has been to promote
essential change in education and society by cultivating
fairminded critical thinking — thinking which
embodies intellectual empathy, intellectual humility,
intellectual perseverance, intellectual integrity, and
intellectual responsibility.


Announcing the Return of the
Foundation for Critical Thinking Press

The Foundation for Critical Thinking has reopened its publishing house at FCTPress.Org. Several publications are available now, including the award-winning Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization, with more to come.

The FCT Press also offers self-publishing services for authors.