PHILOS 183Theory of Knowledge
Philosophy · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Problem-oriented study of contemporary classics of epistemology on topics such as skepticism, justification, foundationalism, epistemic intuitions, tracking, closure, reliabilism, internalism, and externalism, among others. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 21.
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confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PHILOS 183
- PHILOS 21Skepticism and Rationality
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.