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Boston College · Philosophy

3.8% of Boston College's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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Boston College: 3.8% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
4 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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FramingSubject

Furthest left

PHIL 4001 · Feminisms and Philosophies of Difference75

Philosophy

What does it mean to call oneself (or someone else) a 'feminist'? In attempting an answer to this question, we will consider efforts to reveal, unravel, and remedy the conceptual, psychological, and economic dimensions of the oppression of…

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PHIL 4309 · Everybody's Working for the Weekend: Ambition and Alienation70

Philosophy

This course will propose an answer to the following question: Why does it seem like some people are more ambitious than others? On the surface, those with what appears to be a natural drive to succeed seem to become more affluent. That is…

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PHIL 1711 · The American Divide: The Philosophy of Inequality63

Philosophy

This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take both ECON1703 and PHIL1711. How should we interpret our nation's persistent inequalities when our founding documents assert the equality of all? Concern over…

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Furthest right

None. Boston College Philosophy has 4 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.

Why this number, in plain words

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.

  • Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.
Details: exact rows, definitions and method
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Boston College · Philosophybias_left_share3.8—106—
Philosophybias_left_share2.72.4 – 3.17,780—
Formula
100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval
Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot
gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats
Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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