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Washington and Lee University · Philosophy

0% of Washington and Lee University's Philosophy course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Philosophy departments, it is 2.7%.

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Washington and Lee University: 0% Philosophy at all 100 schools: 2.7% each other school in the comparison

Where Philosophy courses fall

0%Far left92–100
15%Left75–91
69%Center-left59–74
15%Center42–58
0%Center-right26–41
0%Right9–25
0%Far right0–8
13 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 239 · Postmodernism: Power, Difference, and Disruption78

Philosophy

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution While many things are said to be "postmodern" -architecture, pop-culture, literature, art, philosophy- the term itself escapes many attempts at definition. In this seminar, we examine the philosophical roots…

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PHIL 357 · Self and Social World78

Philosophy

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution This course takes as its starting point the question of the 'other.' We explore such questions as: how do we perceive, and communicate with others who have different bodies, genders, cultures and histories?…

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PHIL 253 · Philosophy of Race72

Philosophy

FDR: HU Humanities Distribution In this course, students will explore philosophical questions about race and ethnicity. Possible topics include the experiences of racism targeting members of different racial groups, colonialism, the concept…

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Furthest-right subjects

None. Washington and Lee University Philosophy has 11 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
Washington and Lee University · Philosophybias_left_share0—65—
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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