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Colgate University · Philosophy

2.8% of Colgate University's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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Colgate University: 2.8% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

0%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
33%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
6 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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FramingSubject

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 360 · Feminist Philosophy83

Philosophy

Explores questions like: How have gendered assumptions influenced philosophical views about what knowledge is and how knowledge is best pursued? What roles, if any, should considerations of gender play in our theories of knowledge? How have…

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PHIL 202 · Environmental Ethics78

Philosophy

An introduction to the field of environmental ethics. Some of the major figures and philosophies in the environmental movement are studied and critically analyzed with a particular emphasis on the ethical reasoning and its influences on…

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PHIL 121 · Political Philosophy67

Philosophy

Explores central and enduring questions in political philosophy. What justifies the state, and might we be better off without one? What are the proper limits of individual liberty? How should we understand the ideal of equality, and what…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Colgate University Philosophy has 4 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
NameMetricValue95% intervalnscored
Colgate University · Philosophybias_left_share2.8—36—
Philosophybias_left_share2.72.4 – 3.17,780—
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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