Philosophy
Introduction to the tradition of French feminist philosophy, including relevant works by Beauvoir, Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva, LeDoeuff, Kofmann, and others. [3] (No AXLE credit)
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Vanderbilt University · Philosophy
0% of Vanderbilt University's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.
0%20%
Where Philosophy courses fall
0%Far left92–100
25%Left75–91
38%Center-left59–74
13%Center42–58
13%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
13%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
Challenges posed by film forms to traditional aesthetics and the novel philosophical approaches created to deal with them. Topics include the nature of the film image, film and experiential time, cinematic genres, the problem of mass art,…
Philosophy
Environmental ethics (animal rights, respect for nature, the land ethic), science and the natural world, the aesthetics of nature, global justice, and sustainability. [3] (P)
Furthest-right subjects
Philosophy
Problems in social and political philosophy as seen through the lens of the U.S. Civil War. Moral criteria for justifying secession and war, existential perspectives on mass death, ethical paradoxes of slaveholding in a democratic republic,…
Philosophy
Democratic government: duty to vote, alternatives to full suffrage, the epistemic dimension of democratic authority, and various cognitive dysfunctions that democracy encourages. Readings from contemporary journal literature. [3] (HCA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanderbilt University · Philosophy | bias_left_share | 0 | — | 74 | — |
| 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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