PHILOS 184

Topics in Metaphysics

Philosophy · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Intensive investigation of one or two topics or works in metaphysics, such as personal identity, nature of dispositions, possibility and necessity, universals and particulars, causality. Topics announced each term. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2026

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 21.

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PHILOS 21

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

PHILOS 184

PHILOS 21Skepticism and Rationality

1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

Unlocks

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.