Join the All-Virtual
46th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking!

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Transform Your Institution, Department, or Business: Custom Virtual Learning

Fortify your team for the rapidly-complexifying 21st century through customized webinars and twelve-week online training programs in critical thinking. 

These programs are specially-tailored for your institution based on its needs, goals, and schedule.

Connect Virtually with Thinkers from Around the World

Claim your seat at the 46th Annual international Conference on Critical Thinking, entirely online from July 19th–24th, 2026

Learn with our global experts on critical thinking through engaging sessions on everything from education, economics, and AI to social media and politics.

Uncover Powerful Tools for Happiness & Self-Actualization

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 gaining control over one's mind. Empower yourself with the tools of Critical Thinking Therapy, either for yourself as a self-actualizing learner or or for your therapy clients.

Strengthen Your Thinking One-on-One with Our Experts

Grow and learn under the guidance of our specialists in one-on-one virtual tutoring that is customized to your needs and goals

Benefit from the expertise of our Critical Thinking Scholars through a ten-week program.


Discover the Potence of Critical Thinking Therapy

Equip yourself with powerful tools and concepts from the award-winning Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization by Dr. Linda Elder. This groundbreaking book won Editor's Pick at BookLife for introducing explicit critical thinking implements to the world of mental health therapy.

Empower Your Mind Through Semester-Length Online Courses This Fall

Infuse critical thinking into your work and life under the virtual guidance of one of our seasoned Scholars as you practice applying critical thinking to your profession, teaching, learning, and/or personal life with continual expert feedback and peer discussion over sixteen weeks. 


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.