Philosophy
Environmentalists have often faced criticism for wallowing in pessimistic, even apocalyptic, “doom and gloom.” This seminar in environmental philosophy will explore a variety of more-or-less optimistic, more-or-less "utopian," possible…
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Brown University · Philosophy
2.8% of Brown University'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
0%Far left92–100
0%Left75–91
75%Center-left59–74
25%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
Furthest left
Philosophy
What is the relationship between gender, sex, and sexuality? What distinguishes one gender or gender identity from another, especially when two of them might look very similar from an "outside" perspective? How internal is the process of…
Philosophy
Political philosophy is deeply concerned with just distribution: with what we owe each other and why. One important but subtle area of inquiry focuses not on material distribution – on who gets money and things – but on a hidden economy: an…
Furthest right
None. Brown University Philosophy has 4 left-framed courses and not one right-framed course.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown University · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 2.8 | — | 143 | — |
| 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.