Philosophy
In most recent debates, feministcritical theorists have encounter the need to meet the challenge of changingsocial arrangements in order to establish fairer ways in which to fight againstexclusion. They involve not only identifying how…
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The New School · Philosophy
12.0% of The New School's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.
0%20%
Where Philosophy courses fall
28%Far left92–100
43%Left75–91
18%Center-left59–74
7%Center42–58
<1%Center-right26–41
2%Right9–25
<1%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.
Underlined: words the model quoted from the description when we asked it, after scoring, to explain its score.
Furthest-left subjects
Philosophy
The purpose of this course is to critically interrogate the idea that Hegel’s account of the dialectic of Master and Slave in his Phenomenology of Spirit was adopted by later thinkers in order to interrogate the basic structures and…
Philosophy
The course will fall into two parts:The first half (more or less) of the course will consist of a systematic reading of Capital Volume 1. It will aim to provide an account of the main arguments and themes and to examine the methodology.In…
Furthest-right subjects
Philosophy
This course will consider philosophical reflections on slavery. Our aim will be to understanding philosophical explanations for slavery as a historical institution. This will require us to consider different regimes of slavery in historical…
Philosophy
Aristotle’s Politics is one of the major contributions to the history of Western political thought. Shortly after the text of the Politics was made re-accessible via the Latin translations of Wilhelm von Moerbeke in the second half of the…
Philosophy
During his lecture courses of 1977-78 and 78-79, Foucault focuses on the history of what he calls "governmentality." Governmentality has to dow ith the practice of governing more than with institutions themselves,which Foucault considers to…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New School · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 12.0 | — | 476 | — |
| 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.