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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

17%Far left92–100
50%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
12 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 433 · Philosophy of Liberation100

Philosophy

An exploration of the main strands, topics, and figures of the philosophy of liberation, including the controversial and fruitful theology of liberation. The philosophy of liberation ( filosofía de la liberación ) is a strand of Latin…

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PHIL 432 · Philosophy of Gender: Sex and Gender Roles92

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 331 · Philosophy of Immigration83

Philosophy

A philosophical approach to the topic of immigration. Drawing on relevant works in ethics as well as in social and political philosophy, we will explore the following questions: Why should the contingent matter of one's birth not only limit…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Hamilton College Philosophy has 12 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
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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