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Boston College · Philosophy3.8% of Boston 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 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…
Philosophy
This course will take up accounts of the roots of modern notions of justified revolution and social justice calls to transform society in Hebrew scripture and the ministry of Jesus as depicted in the Christian Bible through the…
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…
None. Boston College Philosophy has 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston College · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 3.8 | — | 106 | — |
| Philosophy | bias_left_share | 2.7 | 2.4 – 3.1 | 7,780 | — |