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Amherst College · Philosophy10% of Amherst College's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.
Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.
Philosophy
What are the relationships between racism and capitalism? What economic changes-in the distribution of income and wealth, in production, and in the division of labor-are necessary to achieve racial justice? Marxist theorists of racism have…
Philosophy
The Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School was an attempt both to study modern capitalist society and to make possible its eventual transformation. Generally influenced by a Marxist critique of modern capitalism and its alienated form of…
Philosophy
Does philosophy have anything to contribute to the problem of deeply disadvantaged neighborhoods? Social scientists have long studied concentrations of poverty and racial segregation in the United States. Drawing on this body of literature,…
None. Amherst College Philosophy has 9 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.
Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.
Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst College · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 10 | — | 40 | — |
| Philosophy | bias_left_share | 2.7 | 2.4 – 3.1 | 7,780 | — |