Philosophy
An introduction to the thought of Karl Marx and themes from his work. Areas of focus may include Marx’s account of alienation and exploitation, his materialist theory of history, his critique of liberalism, his theory of ideology, his…
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Dartmouth College · Philosophy
2.8% of Dartmouth 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
5%Far left92–100
58%Left75–91
26%Center-left59–74
11%Center42–58
0%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
This course examines the relationship between feminism and philosophy. The focus is on such questions as: Is the Western philosophical canon inherently sexist? How should feminist philosophers read the canon? Are Western philosophical…
Philosophy
This course will focus primarily on the following questions: What is feminism? What is sexism? What is oppression? What is gender? Is knowledge gendered? Is value gendered? What is a (gendered) self? What would liberation be? In exploring…
Furthest-right subjects
None. Dartmouth College Philosophy has 17 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
| Name | Metric | Value | 95% interval | n | scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dartmouth College · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 2.8 | — | 145 | — |
| 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.