Founded in 1983, the Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking (AILACT) is a non-profit scholarly association which aims to promote research into, teaching of, and testing of informal logic and critical thinking.
It sponsors programs in conjunction with the annual meetings of the Eastern, Pacific and Central divisions of the American Philosophical Association, and has in the past sponsored programs in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association.
Visit the AILACT Speakers Forum to enjoy wonderful talks from earlier in the series and to check out our schedule of upcoming talks.
The 2025 AILACT Essay Prize Call for Papers has been posted.
AILACT is pleased to announce the publication of the Second Edition of Studies in Critical Thinking, edited by J. Anthony Blair.
Other informative texts on critical thinking and informal logic can be found at Windsor Studies in Argumentation.
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