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Critical Thinking Certification Course

Those looking to achieve Certification in Critical Thinking can complete their certification training in our Spring 2026 Online Certification Course.

This course meets every two weeks from February 3rd through April 28th of 2026
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Full-Semester Courses in Critical Thinking

Courses begin January 27th. Learn the concepts and applications of critical thinking 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.



Webinar on Applying Critical Thinking to Social Media

This free webinar workshop will help you actively explore the deleterious effects of social media, as well as how you can fully control your engagement with it through the concepts and tools of critical thinking.

Held February 5th at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (1 p.m. PST).

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.