Foundation for Critical Thinking

08/27/2026

06/15/2026

Critical Thinking Therapy is now available in eBook format.

Acquire in full or concise format at fctpress.org.

Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization:
https://conta.cc/4mD6DqS

Critical Thinking Therapy:
Self-Actualization and Happiness Toolbox for Everyone: https://conta.cc/4oqWSNj

04/30/2026

For the first time, The Foundation for Critical Thinking will host a fishbowl debate at The 46th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking.

Selected speakers will debate a topic assigned in advance by our Senior Fellows, who will also moderate as needed. Attendees will be tasking with observing the debate while applying critical thinking standards, and will afterwards discuss their assessments in breakout rooms. Finally, everyone will return to the main meeting, where Drs. Elder and Nosich will offer their own feedback.

Register for the conference today:
https://conta.cc/4a70H4Y

04/27/2026

Last call to submit your proposals for the 46th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking!

Share your voice with the field of critical thinking studies. We do not require polished papers or controlled studies (though these are welcome too). If you have significant experience with explicit, comprehensive critical thinking, you have a unique perspective that can benefit others on the same journey. Moreover, we do not require solutions or stories of triumph. Great obstacles and perplexing questions are inherent in the study, practice, and teaching of critical thinking; articulating these inquiries and challenges is as important as finding their answers.

See our proposal submission guidelines:
https://conta.cc/4s0WQg3

04/21/2026

Obtaining the skills necessary for better perception of oneself is crucial to creating a happier existence. "Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization" provides an accessible set of tools and concepts for achieving more reasonable, more accurate views of ourselves and the events around us.

Join us for our public workshops on Critical Thinking Therapy:
https://conta.cc/4kQ6fCP

Learn more about Critical Thinking Therapy: https://conta.cc/4mD6DqS

04/14/2026

Join us tomorrow! You are invited to attend our next public Critical Thinking Therapy Workshop!

Online this Wednesday, April 15th from 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. EST.

To learn more and join:
https://conta.cc/4kQ6fCP

Based on Linda Elder's 'Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization' (2025), available through FCTPress.org.

04/09/2026

Registration for online critical thinking courses is open for educators, professionals, students, & more!

To read more and register, please visit:
https://conta.cc/3IV3vHc

04/07/2026

We are seeking proposals for the 46th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking!

Share your voice with the field of critical thinking studies. We are especially interested in proposals from those who have utilized the Paul-Elder Framework for Critical Thinking for at least one year and wish to share their experiences, approaches, difficulties, and/or victories.

We do not require polished papers or controlled studies (though these are welcome). If you have a significant background with explicit, comprehensive critical thinking, you have a unique perspective and body of experience that can benefit others who are on the same journey. Moreover, we do not necessitate solutions or stories of triumph. Great obstacles and perplexing questions are inherent and unending in the study, practice, and teaching of critical thinking; articulating these inquiries, issues, and challenges is as important as finding their answers.

For proposal submission guidelines, please see: https://conta.cc/4s0WQg3

04/02/2026

Don't miss out on the world's longest-running conference on critical thinking, entirely online this year! Early Bird Registration (15% discount) is open through April 15th.

Join people from around the world for a conference like no other. World-renowned experts provide dynamic interactions as you work the ideas of critical thinking into your reasoning framework through discussion and activities.

Learn more and register here:
https://conta.cc/4a70H4Y

04/01/2026

"Truth, of whatever kind, is the proper object of the intellect; its cultivation then lies in fitting it to apprehend and contemplate truth . . . the intellect in its present state, . . . does not discern truth intuitively, or as a whole. We know, not by a direct and simple vision, not at a glance, but, as it were, by piecemeal and accumulation, by a mental process, by going round an object, by the comparison, the combination, the mutual correction, the continual adaptation, of many partial notions, by the employment, concentration, and joint action of many faculties and exercises of mind. Such a union and concert of the intellectual powers, such an enlargement and development, such a comprehensiveness, is necessarily a matter of training. And again, such a training is a matter of rule; it is not mere application, however exemplary, which introduces the mind to truth, nor the reading of many books, nor the getting up of many subjects, nor the witnessing many experiments, nor attending many lectures. All this is short of enough; a man may have done it all, yet be lingering in the vestibule of knowledge: he may not realize what his mouth utters; he may not see with his mental eye what confronts him; he may have no grasp of things as they are; or at least he may have no power at all of advancing one step forward of himself, in consequence of what he has already acquired, no power of discriminating between truth and falsehood, of sifting out the grains of truth from the mass, of arranging things according to the their real value. Such a power is an acquired faculty of judgment, of clearsightedness, of sagacity, of wisdom, . . . and of intellectual self-possession and repose - qualities which do not come of mere acquirement. The eye of the mind, of which the object is truth, is the work of discipline and habit." (p. 109)

~John Henry Newman in "The Idea of a University" (1853)

Access the world's largest online repository of critical thinking activities, literature, and video footage at The Center for Critical Thinking Community Online:
https://community.criticalthinking.org/