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University of Notre Dame · Philosophy

1.5% of University of Notre Dame's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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University of Notre Dame: 1.5% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

0%Far left92–100

37%Left75–91

42%Center-left59–74

11%Center42–58

5%Center-right26–41

5%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

19 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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Framing Subject

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

PHIL 20213 · The Fragmented Self: Philosophy of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Disability85

Philosophy

This course, cross-listed between the philosophy department and the gender studies program, invites students into an in-depth theoretical exploration of the self as seen through the intersections of gender, race, sexuality and disability.…

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PHIL 20409 · Black Political Thought83

Philosophy

This course will focus on the writings of Black political thinkers in the Americas, Africa, and Europe. Through critical examination of the conditions against, and contexts within, which the political theories of these thinkers are…

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PHIL 24539 · Feminism and Gender Justice83

Philosophy

This module introduces students to contemporary feminist ideas and key feminist debates, specifically feminist gender theory (including discussions of Queer Theory and Hegemonic Masculinity), and feminist political ethics (including…

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Furthest-right subjects

PHIL 34508 · Anarchy, Law and State17

Philosophy

PHIL 30230 Anarchy, Law, and State at UCD; This module will consider a central topic in political philosophy - the nature, function and justification of the State - from a libertarian perspective. A considerable amount of reading material…

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PHIL 24452 · After Nazism- The Philosophy of Identity and the Jewish Conflict with the West38

Philosophy

After the Holocaust it perhaps appeared that an age old conflict between Judaism and Western Civilization had finally come to an end. Indeed, since 1945 Jewish life in Israel and in the Diaspora has relied on the "values and interests" that…

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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
University of Notre Dame · Philosophy	bias_left_share	1.5	—	271	—
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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