Philosophy
Few figures have inspired as much admiration and detestation-and even fewer have had as global a reception-as Karl Marx. Movements for justice and emancipation throughout the 20th century embraced Marxist ideals as alternatives to the…
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Swarthmore College · Philosophy
8.1% of Swarthmore College's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.
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Where Philosophy courses fall
10%Far left92–100
40%Left75–91
40%Center-left59–74
10%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
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.
Furthest-left subjects
Philosophy
This first-year seminar critically examines the entangled relations between aesthetics and power in order to appraise the capacity of aesthetic experience to establish and reinforce norms, and the potential of aesthetic experience to…
Philosophy
This course seeks to critically understand "race" as a historical construction and discursive practice that functions in social and political domains as well as in individual modes of embodiment and identity. Rather than analyze the…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Swarthmore College Philosophy has 9 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
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swarthmore College · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 8.1 | — | 62 | — |
| Philosophy | bias_left_share | 2.7 | 2.4 – 3.1 | 7,780 | — |
- 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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