Philosophy
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) (Same as AFRS 280 The following intermediate-level intensive class provides a historical survey and conceptual introduction to Africana Philosophy. Taking a global approach, the class shows the…
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7.3% of Vassar 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
11%Far left92–100
67%Left75–91
11%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
11%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
Semester Offered: Fall 1 unit(s) We are dominated as workers, indigenous people, women and non-men, and people subject to an environmental crisis. But, we might ask: how should we understand these relations of power and our role in them?…
Philosophy
Semester Offered: Spring 1 unit(s) (Same as WFQS 250 ) Should housework be waged? Should sex be for sale? What is the patriarchy anyway? This course is an introduction to feminist theory as well as the arguments and questions that have…
Furthest-right subjects
Philosophy
1 unit(s) Confucius is one of the most influential figures-as historical individual and as symbol-in world history; and the Analects , the sayings attributed to Confucius and his disciples, is a classic of world literature. Nonetheless, how…
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vassar College · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 7.3 | — | 41 | — |
| 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.