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The 2024 Fall Critical Thinking Academy

Join us in the Arkansas Ozarks November 15th-17th, 2024 for a unique learning experience led by Senior Fellows of the Foundation for Critical Thinking.

Members of the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online: please email us for another 20% off.

Online Course for Critical Thinking Certification

Those looking to be certified in the Paul-Elder Approach to Critical Thinking can complete their facilitator training in the Spring 2025 Online Certification Course.

Course meetings begin February 5th, 2025!


Critical Thinking Therapy:
Book Release & Signing

Dr. Linda Elder's new book, Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness & Self-Actualization, will be released at the 2024 Fall Critical Thinking Academy. Copies will be available for purchase, and Dr. Elder will be signing copies for attendees.

The Academy runs Nov. 15-17, 2024.

Free Webinar Workshop: Why Self-Deception Is a Tremendous Barrier to Critical Thinking

Join Dr. Gerald Nosich September 25th at 2:00 p.m. EDT (11:00 a.m. Pacific). This webinar workshop will illuminate some ways in which self-deception sabotages our development as reasoners, and it will offer strategies for recognizing and undercutting manifestations of our self-deceptive tendencies.

Critical Thinking Podcast

Only in the Center for Critical Thinking Community Online.

Join Drs. Linda Elder and Gerald Nosich, international authorities on critical thinking, as they break new ground in the podcast Critical Thinking: Going Deeper.


Full-Semester Courses in Critical Thinking

Spring 2025 Registration Open Now. Study under the guidance of a first-generation Paulian Scholar from the comfort of your home or office!

Complete coursework on your own time with continual feedback.




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.