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. In The Best Australian Science Writing 2017 (pp. ---) Sydney NSW Australia: NewSouth Publishing.
Ellerton, Peter (2017). Pragmatic epistemology, inquiry values and education for thinking. In Maughn Rollins Gregory, Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris (Ed.), The Routledge international handbook of philosophy for children (pp. 111-118) New York, NY United States: Routledge.
Ellerton, Peter (2015). Metacognition and critical thinking: some pedagogical imperatives. In M. Davies and R. Barnett (Ed.), Palgrave handbook of critical thinking in higher education (pp. 409-426) US: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-1-137-37805-7_25
Ellerton, Peter (2010). Theology is not philosophy. In Warren Bonett (Ed.), The Australian book of atheism (pp. 125-138) Carlton North, Vic., Australia: Scribe Publications.
Journal Articles
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, . doi:10.1136/medethics-2018-104997
Ellerton, Peter (2018) How do you know that what you know is true? That’s epistemology. The Conversation, .
Ellerton, Peter (2018, February 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: . doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aaa49f
Ellerton, Peter (2017, August 17). When it comes to same-sex marriage, not all views deserve respect. , .
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, .
Ellerton, Peter (2014, May 13). Why facts alone don’t change minds in our big public debates. , .
Conference Paper
Ellerton, Peter (2015). The Skills and Values of Inquiry. In: Proceedings of the International Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia. International Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Melboure, VIC, Australia, (). 5-8 December 2015.
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, January 29). Why would anyone believe the Earth is flat?. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2015, December 24). How to unwrap Christmas and Santa for the little atheists in your life. The Conversation, .
Ellerton, Peter (2015, December 21). Santa, death and the Easter Bunny – how to have that hard talk with your kid. The Conversation, .
Ellerton, Peter (2015, August 19). Teaching how to think is just as important as teaching anything else. The Conversation, .
Ellerton, Peter (2015, August 11). The politics of fear have trumped the politics of courage – more’s the pity. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2015, July 14). Some useful tips on how to raise an argumentative child. The Conversation, .
Ellerton, Peter (2015, June 15). This is why you will lose your argument. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2015, May 29). Working together for critical thinking in schools. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2015, May 11). Why politicians don’t want us to think, but opinions are okay. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2014, December 18). How to teach all students to think critically. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2014, November 14). How an approach to science helps define the political centre. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2014, October 06). The ironclad logic of conspiracy theories and how to break it. The Conversation, .
Ellerton, Peter (2014, July 17). The problem of false balance when reporting on science. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2014, April 23). Brandis confuses right to be heard with right to be taken seriously. The Conversation, .
Ellerton, Peter (2014, January 31). Where is the proof in pseudoscience?. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2014, January 16). What you think is right may actually be wrong – here’s why. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2013, July 23). And in science news … can we have more science news?. The Conversation, .
Ellerton, Peter (2013, May 01). Bees, pesticides and … what are chief scientists for?. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2012, August 11). Are all ideas equal? Not in the classroom. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2012, May 28). Teaching the nature of science (and keeping students engaged). , .
Ellerton, Peter (2012, May 23). Health of Australian Science: time to call in the doctors (of physics). The Conversation, .
Ellerton, Peter (2012, May 11). The truth, the whole truth and … wait, how many truths are there?. , .
Ellerton, Peter (2012, April 26). Listen and learn: the language of science and scepticism. The Conversation, .