The Foundation for Critical Thinking's books are used by countless students and faculty at universities, school districts, trade schools, and private and military academies globally, as well as businesses, government, and individuals from all walks of life.

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with no grant funding or major benefactors, we need help from you to keep our organization alive! We reached only 15% of our $100,000 goal in 2017, but with your help, we can get there in 2018!

For the first time. the world's longest-running critical thinking conference will be held in Europe! The 39th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking takes place July 4 - 7, 2019 at the world-renowned KU Leuven in Flanders, Belgium!

We provide on-site as well as online professional development, helping educators bring critical thinking into the heart of their teaching and administrators instill it in the core of curricula. We also serve businesses, military, and government.

The Paul-Elder Framework for Critical Thinking is an internationally-recognized approach to explicit reasoning. Becoming certified in the teaching of our framework provides unique benefits not available to educators, consultants, and trainers at large.

The Paulian Framework for critical thinking has been developed and discussed through decades of scholarship by the world's foremost experts on substantive, explicit, ethical rationality. Our guides encapsulate this framework and many of its applications.