Dr Peter Ellerton

Lecturer in Philosophy

+61 7 336 53165

peter.ellerton@uq.edu.au

Room E353, Forgan Smith Building (1)

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Publications

Book Chapters (5)

Journal Articles (9)

Conference Paper (1)

Dataset Collection (1)

Research Report (1)

Department Technical Report (1)

Newspaper Articles (36)

Book Chapters

Ellerton, Peter (2019). Critical Thinking in Adolescence. The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development. (pp. 1-1) edited by S. Hupp and J. Jewell. London, United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781119171492.wecad370

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

Hegazy, Hind, Ellerton, Peter, Campos-Remon, Hannah, Zaphir, Luke, Mazzola, Claudio and Brown, Deborah (2021). Working from theory: developing the bases of teachers’ critical thinking pedagogies through action research. Educational Action Research, 1-16. doi: 10.1080/09650792.2021.1877757

Osborn, Judy-anne, Larkins, Jo-Ann, McBain, Bonnie, Ellerton, Peter, Black, Joel, Borwein, Naomi, Breuer, Florian and Roberts, Malcom (2020). Foundations of the DEFT Project: tertiary educators Developing Expertise Fostering Thinking. International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, 28 (2), 2-15. doi: 10.30722/ijisme.28.02.001

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, 02 07). How to use critical thinking to spot false climate claims

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, 08 17). When it comes to same-sex marriage, not all views deserve respect

Ellerton, Peter (2014, 05 13). Why facts alone don’t change minds in our big public debates

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

Research Report

Mair, D., Smillie, L., La Placa, G., Schwendinger, F., Raykovska, M., Pasztor, Z., van Bavel, R. and Ellerton, Peter (Expert Contributor) (2019). Understanding our political nature: How to put knowledge and reason at the heart of political decision-making. Luxembourg, Belgium: Publications Office of the European Union. doi: 10.2760/374191

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 (2018, 08 04). How do you know that what you know is true? That’s epistemology

Ellerton, Peter (2017, 06 13). Film festival reveals the passion, emotion and disappointment that can come with science

Ellerton, Peter (2017, 04 18). Facts are not always more important than opinions: here’s why

Ellerton, Peter (2017, 01 31). Shallow impact: when crackpot conspiracy theories are touted as news, we all lose

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 12 23). A very diplomatic Christmas: how to avoid a coup at the dinner table this year

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 12 01). Whose word should you respect in any debate on science?

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 10 10). Post-truth politics and the US election: why the narrative trumps the facts

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 09 15). What exactly is the scientific method and why do so many people get it wrong?

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 07 25). Despairing about elections? This is why your vote matters

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 07 21). Why we need to hear what controversial people say and not silence the debate

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 05 30). Why there’s so little real argument in today’s political debate

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 02 02). We can’t trust common sense but we can trust science

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 01 29). Why would anyone believe the Earth is flat?

Ellerton, Peter (2016, 01 07). What does it mean to think and could a machine ever do it?

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, 08 11). The politics of fear have trumped the politics of courage – more’s the pity

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 (2015, 05 11). Why politicians don’t want us to think, but opinions are okay

Ellerton, Peter (2014, 12 18). How to teach all students to think critically

Ellerton, Peter (2014, 11 14). How an approach to science helps define the political centre

Ellerton, Peter (2014, 10 06). The ironclad logic of conspiracy theories and how to break it The Conversation

Ellerton, Peter (2014, 07 17). The problem of false balance when reporting on science

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 (2014, 01 16). What you think is right may actually be wrong – here’s why

Ellerton, Peter (2013, 07 23). And in science news … can we have more science news? The Conversation

Ellerton, Peter (2013, 05 01). Bees, pesticides and … what are chief scientists for?

Ellerton, Peter (2012, 08 11). Are all ideas equal? Not in the classroom

Ellerton, Peter (2012, 05 28). Teaching the nature of science (and keeping students engaged)

Ellerton, Peter (2012, 05 23). Health of Australian Science: time to call in the doctors (of physics) The Conversation

Ellerton, Peter (2012, 05 11). The truth, the whole truth and … wait, how many truths are there?

Ellerton, Peter (2012, 04 26). Listen and learn: the language of science and scepticism The Conversation