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Columbia University · Philosophy

3.7% of Columbia University's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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Columbia University: 3.7% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

0%Far left92–100

0%Left75–91

100%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

0%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

2 plotted courses (the ones with a political framing). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right.

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Framing Subject

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PHIL UN3756 · Critical Philosophy of Race: What is Race?63

Philosophy

This course is a philosophical examination of the meaning and significance of the concept of race. The course will chiefly aim to answer: What do we mean by the term “race”? And why is it often tied to the existence of racism? From where…

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PHIL UN3768 · ALLIES, ADVOCATES, ADVERSARIES61

Philosophy

This course will survey political and epistemological questions that are centered around living in a society with oppression, including: What is oppression? What does it mean to be an ally? When is it right to speak for others and advocate…

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Furthest right

None. Columbia University Philosophy has 2 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
Columbia University · Philosophy	bias_left_share	3.7	—	54	—
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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