Dr Peter Ellerton
Lecturer in Philosophy
+61 7 336 53165
Room E353, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Publications
Book Chapters
Ellerton, Peter (2017). Settling Science - why the scientific method confuses us. The Best Australian Science Writing 2017. (pp. ---) Sydney NSW Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
Ellerton, Peter (2017). Pragmatic epistemology, inquiry values and education for thinking. The Routledge international handbook of philosophy for children. (pp. 111-118) edited by Maughn Rollins Gregory, Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315726625
Ellerton, Peter (2015). Metacognition and critical thinking: some pedagogical imperatives. Palgrave handbook of critical thinking in higher education. (pp. 409-426) edited by M. Davies and R. Barnett. US: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-37805-7_25
Ellerton, Peter (2010). Theology is not philosophy. The Australian book of atheism. (pp. 125-138) edited by Warren Bonett. Carlton North, Vic., Australia: Scribe Publications.
Journal Articles
Mazzola, Claudio, Kinkead, David, Ellerton, Peter and Brown, Deborah (2020). Reichenbachian common cause clusters. Erkenntnis doi: 10.1007/s10670-020-00269-6
Kinkead, Dave, Brown, Deborah, Ellerton, Peter and Mazzola, Claudio (2019). Reasons: a digital argument mapping library for modern browsers. Journal of Open Source Software, 4 (37), 1044. doi: 10.21105/joss.01044
Jansen, Melanie and Ellerton, Peter (2018). How to read an ethics paper. Journal of Medical Ethics, 44 (12), 810-813. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2018-104997
Ellerton, Peter (2018). How do you know that what you know is true? That’s epistemology. The Conversation
Cook, John, Ellerton, Peter and Kinkead, David (2018). Deconstructing climate misinformation to identify reasoning errors. Environmental Research Letters, 13 (2) 024018, 024018. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaa49f
Ellerton, Peter (2017). Film festival reveals the passion, emotion and disappointment that can come with science. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2017). Facts are not always more important than opinions: here’s why. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2017). Shallow impact: when crackpot conspiracy theories are touted as news, we all lose. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2016). A very diplomatic Christmas: how to avoid a coup at the dinner table this year. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2016). Whose word should you respect in any debate on science?. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2016). Post-truth politics and the US election: why the narrative trumps the facts. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2016). What exactly is the scientific method and why do so many people get it wrong?. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2016). Despairing about elections? This is why your vote matters. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2016). Why we need to hear what controversial people say and not silence the debate. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2016). Why there’s so little real argument in today’s political debate. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2016). We can’t trust common sense but we can trust science. The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2016). What does it mean to think and could a machine ever do it?. The Conversation
Conference Paper
Ellerton, Peter (2015). The Skills and Values of Inquiry. International Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Melboure, VIC, Australia, 5-8 December 2015. Fitzroy, VIC, Australia: Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.
Dataset Collection
Lodge, Jason, Pezaro, Charlotte, Brown, Deborah, Kent, Kirsty, Corbett, Brooklyn and Ellerton, Peter (2019). Detailed list of studies identified in systematic review of published research examining the critical thinking of higher education students. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.964
Department Technical Report
Ellerton, Peter (2017). Critical Thinking and Collaborative Inquiry. Occasional paper commissioned by the NSW Department of Education National Initiatives & Performance Directorate.
Newspaper Articles
Ellerton, Peter (2016, 01 29). Why would anyone believe the Earth is flat?
Ellerton, Peter (2015, 12 24). How to unwrap Christmas and Santa for the little atheists in your life The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2015, 12 21). Santa, death and the Easter Bunny – how to have that hard talk with your kid The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2015, 08 19). Teaching how to think is just as important as teaching anything else The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2015, 07 14). Some useful tips on how to raise an argumentative child The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2015, 06 15). This is why you will lose your argument
Ellerton, Peter (2015, 05 29). Working together for critical thinking in schools
Ellerton, Peter (2014, 12 18). How to teach all students to think critically
Ellerton, Peter (2014, 10 06). The ironclad logic of conspiracy theories and how to break it The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2014, 04 23). Brandis confuses right to be heard with right to be taken seriously The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2014, 01 31). Where is the proof in pseudoscience?
Ellerton, Peter (2013, 07 23). And in science news … can we have more science news? The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2012, 08 11). Are all ideas equal? Not in the classroom
Ellerton, Peter (2012, 05 23). Health of Australian Science: time to call in the doctors (of physics) The Conversation
Ellerton, Peter (2012, 04 26). Listen and learn: the language of science and scepticism The Conversation