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Hamilton College · Philosophy

12.5% of Hamilton College's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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Hamilton College: 12.5% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

0%Far left92–100
14%Left75–91
86%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
7 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Furthest left

PHIL 432 · Philosophy of Gender: Sex and Gender Roles78

Philosophy

A critical examination, from a philosophical standpoint, of traditional Western (or Global North) conceptions of gender and sex categories. Some of the main goals of this philosophical critique are (1) to uncover the ways in which these…

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PHIL 225 · Knowledge and Oppression72

Philosophy

An examination of the relationship between knowledge and oppression. We explore various ways oppression limits knowledge, as well as how it is that knowledge empowers us to fight against oppression. We consider questions such as: In what…

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PHIL 126 · Marginalized Philosophies of the Americas62

Philosophy

An introduction to the historically marginalized philosophies of Indigenous, Afro-Caribbean, and Latin American peoples, as well as to some of the philosophies of liberation developed in the Americas. The course will cover topics in social…

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Furthest right

None. Hamilton College Philosophy has 7 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
Hamilton College · Philosophybias_left_share12.5—56—
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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