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University of Chicago · Philosophy

2.4% of University of Chicago's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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University of Chicago: 2.4% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

20%Far left92–100
33%Left75–91
47%Center-left59–74
0%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
15 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 21424 · Marx in Paris100

Philosophy

The third course will cover Marx's "Paris Manuscripts" (aka "The 1844 Manuscripts," aka "The Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts") and Marx's historical writings about France, especially The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and his writings on the Paris Commune.

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PHIL 51830 · Advanced Topics in Moral, Political & Legal Philosophy94

Philosophy

Topic: MARX'S PHILOSOPHY AND 20TH-CENTURY MARXISM: HISTORY, ECONOMICS, THE STATE, IDEOLOGY The first half of the seminar will introduce some major themes of Marx's philosophy-especially historical materialism, his economics and analysis of…

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PHIL 26425 · Reading Marx's Capital: A Critique of Political Economy92

Philosophy

Karl Marx's account of "those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails" remains one of the most influential yet contentious theories ever committed to paper. Often invoked in times of turmoil, his name has come to mean…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Chicago Philosophy has 15 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
University of Chicago · Philosophybias_left_share2.4—82—
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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