Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist and a prominent authority on critical thinking. She is President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking, has taught psychology and critical thinking at the college level, and has presented to more than 50,000 educators at all levels. She is author of Critical Thinking Therapy: For Happiness and Self-Actualization (2025) and Liberating the Mind: Overcoming Sociocentric Thought and Egocentric Tendencies (2019), and she has coauthored four books (including Fact Over Fake: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Media Bias and Political Propaganda, and Critical Thinking: Tools for Taking Charge of Your Professional and Personal Life) as well as 24 Thinker's Guides.
Dr. Elder has authored an original stage theory of critical thinking development. Concerned with the relationship between thinking and affect, as well as the barriers to critical thinking, Dr. Elder has placed these issues at the center of her work.
With experience in both administration and the classroom, Dr. Elder understands firsthand the problems facing educators, administrators, and business leaders. She is a dynamic presenter who reaches her audience on a person-to-person level.
Dr. Gerald Nosich is a noted authority on critical thinking and has given more than 250 workshops to instructors and governmental agencies on all aspects of teaching it. He is author of Reasons and Arguments (1982). His second book, Learning to Think Things Through: A Guide to Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum (2012), has been translated into Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. His third book, Critical Writing: Using the Concepts and Processes of Critical Thinking to Write a Paper (2021), is available from Bloomsbury Publishing.
Dr. Nosich has given workshops for instructors at all levels of education in the United States, Canada, Thailand, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Singapore and England. He has worked with the U.S. Department of Education on a project for a National Assessment of Higher Order Thinking Skills, given teleconferences sponsored by PBS and Starlink on teaching for critical thinking within subject-matter courses, served as a consultant for ACT in Critical Thinking and Language Arts assessment, and been featured as a Noted Scholar at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of numerous articles on critical thinking, as well as audio and video recordings. He has been Assistant Director at the Center for Critical Thinking, is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Critical Thinking, and is Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Buffalo as well as the University of New Orleans.
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More Presenters Will Be Announced Soon!
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About the Conference
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We are now accepting proposals for Guest Sessions at the 46th Annual International Conference! We need your voice and experiences, even as you continue to internalize, research, and apply critical thinking ideas – no matter where you are in the process.
Since 1981, The Foundation and Center for Critical Thinking – sister organizations that together represent the world's first think tank dedicated to explicit, comprehensive critical thinking – have hosted the world's longest-running critical thinking conference. The conference emphasizes the Paul-Elder Framework for Critical Thinking, which stands apart from other critical thinking theory in that, first, it applies to all human reasoning in all fields, professions, and domains of life; second, it relies on natural language, rather than technical jargon, to provide tools and concepts that enable the thinker to break down, assess, and enhance his or her own reasoning; third, it accounts for human emotions and desires and their relationships with reasoning as well as each other; and fourth, it emphasizes the importance of ethics in reasoning, illuminating how reasoning that fails to account for ethics is inherently irrational. 
