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University of Tennessee-Knoxville · Philosophy

3.1% of University of Tennessee-Knoxville'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 Tennessee-Knoxville: 3.1% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

0%Far left92–100
67%Left75–91
33%Center-left59–74
0%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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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 382 · Philosophy of Feminism83

Philosophy

A philosophical exploration of feminist perspectives on issues related to gender, sex, and sexuality, labor, sexism and racism, intersectionality, colonialism, oppression, and sexual violence.(Same as WGS 382 *)Satisfies Volunteer Core…

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PHIL 392 · Philosophy of Law83

Philosophy

An exploration of some basic issues about the law and legal systems, such as the nature of legal systems as normative social practices, the relationships between law and morality, theories of adjudication and legal reasoning, the…

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PHIL 590 · Topics in Social and Political Philosophy83

Philosophy

Philosophical problems concerning social and political life: family, state, freedom, justice; major theoretical responses: anarchism, social contract, Marxism.Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.

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Furthest-right subjects

None. University of Tennessee-Knoxville Philosophy has 6 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 Tennessee-Knoxville · Philosophybias_left_share3.1—64—
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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