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Emory University · Philosophy

0% of Emory University's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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Emory University: 0% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

50%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
0%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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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.

Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.

Furthest-left subjects

PHIL 335 · Marx and Marxism100

Philosophy

Survey of the basic tenets of Marxist thought from Marx to the present. Issues include the nature of value under capitalism, alienation and exploitation, the philosophy of history, class division and struggle, ideology, and revolution.…

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PHIL 341 · Decolonial Thought94

Philosophy

Examines key texts in Decolonial Thought. Assess the move from the language of colonialism and decolonization to coloniality and decoloniality. To these ends, the course will consider conceptions of the human, history, capital, race, gender, and sexuality.

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PHIL 340 · Feminisms of Color92

Philosophy

Surveys feminisms of color addressing issues of race, racism, class, ethnicity, history, and politics in a U.S. and global context. Topics include Black feminisms, intersectionality, coloniality of gender, "third world" feminisms,…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Emory University Philosophy has 6 courses with a left-of-center subject and not one with a right-of-center subject.

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
Emory University · Philosophybias_left_share0—82—
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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