# Philosophy (PHILOS) courses

UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog · 93 courses

Source: https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/philos/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### PHILOS 1 — Introduction to Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 10 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- (IV)

A selection of philosophical problems, concepts, and methods, e.g., free will, cause and substance, personal identity, the nature of philosophy itself.

### PHILOS 2 — Puzzles and Paradoxes

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 10 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- (IV and VB.)

Introduction to the formal tools needed to comprehend and evaluate philosophical arguments and theoretical reasoning in general.

### PHILOS 3 — Technology and Society

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 7 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- (II)

A study of the nature of technology, its relation to human values, the philosophical assumptions in its development, and the philosophical implications of technology.

### PHILOS 4 — Introduction to Ethics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 7 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- (IV)

Selected topics from the history of ethics, e.g., the nature of the good life and the moral justification of conduct.

### PHILOS 5 — Contemporary Moral Problems

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 5 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- (IV)

Selected moral issues of current interest, e.g., abortion, sexual morality, euthanasia, capital punishment, reverse discrimination, civil disobedience, or violence.

### PHILOS 10 — History of Ancient Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- (IV)

Examination of the central philosophical themes developed by the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, the Epicureans, and the Skeptics.

### PHILOS 12 — History of Modern Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** Recommended: PHILOS 10 or PHILOS 11
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- (IV)

A study of major developments in western philosophy from Descartes to Kant with readings from Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant.

### PHILOS 13 — History of Contemporary Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** Recommended: PHILOS 12
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- (IV)

A study of recent philosophical developments in Anglo-American and Continental philosophy with readings from such figures as Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, Quine, Heidegger, and Sartre.

### PHILOS 21 — Philosophy and Religion

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as REL STD 21
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary
- (IV)

Examines the intersection of religion and philosophy from a standpoint that does not presuppose previous academic study of either. Both Western and Eastern traditions and perspectives may be explored.

### PHILOS 22 — Introduction to Law and Society

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- (III)

What constitutes a legal system? What does it mean for a society to have a system as a part of the social fabric? Examines the social status of law and its use as a tool for fashioning society.

### PHILOS 29 — Critical Reasoning

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 13 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 29
- (II and Vb.)

Introduction to analysis and reasoning. The concepts of argument, premise, and conclusion, validity and invalidity, consistency and inconsistency. Identifying and assessing premises and inferences. Deductive versus inductive reasoning, and introduction to the probability calculus. Evaluating definitions. Informal fallacies.

### PHILOS 30 — Introduction to Symbolic Logic

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 30, LSCI 43
- (Vb)

An introduction to the symbolism and methods of the logic of statements, including evaluation of arguments by truth tables, the techniques of natural deduction, and semantic tableaux.

### PHILOS 31 — Introduction to Inductive Logic

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 10 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 31
- (II and Va)

Philosophical questions concerning the foundations of scientific inference, e.g., the traditional problem of induction, the Goodman paradox, the concept of cause, Mill's method of inductive reasoning, probability calculus, different interpretations of probability, and their interaction in inductive reasoning.

### PHILOS 40 — Special Topics in Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Lectures on selected topics at the lower-division level.

### PHILOS 41 — The Nature of Scientific Inquiry

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 40
- (II)

Investigates the nature, scope, and status of scientific knowledge and the methods used to acquire it. Uses concrete historical examples from a variety of scientific fields to identify distinctive features of the scientific enterprise and explore their significance.

### PHILOS 50 — Business Ethics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Exploration of business and corporate operations from a philosophical lens. Philosophical analysis of profits, the production process and products themselves, and the business environment. Discussion of business decision-making drawn on the work of experts, case studies, and current events.

### PHILOS 51 — Science in the Public Sphere

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 50
- (II or III)

Investigates the role of science in a democratic society. Discusses the scope and limits of scientific knowledge in the context of arguments for the special status of science in political decision-making. Uses concrete historical examples from a variety of fields.

### PHILOS 60 — Reason and Rhetoric

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Examination of techniques for empathetic listening, role reversal, classical and modern persuasion methods. Development of critical thinking and argumentation skills, emphasizing active engagement in controversial debates. Practice in analyzing claims, identifying assumptions, and understanding biases in public discourse and humanities.

### PHILOS 91 — Sex, Race, and Science

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 91
- Overlaps with LPS H91
- (III)

Discusses the origins of biological sex, dynamics of sexual selection, sex differences in humans, and the construction of gender in human societies. Seeks to understand the role social values play in the creation of science.

### PHILOS 100W — Writing Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 100W
- (Ib)

Discussion of those aspects of writing of special importance in philosophy, e.g., philosophical terminology, techniques for evaluating arguments, philosophical definitions and theories. At least 4,000 words of assigned composition based on philosophical readings.

### PHILOS 101 — Introduction to Metaphysics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

A study of one or more of the problems of "first philosophy," e.g., substance, free will, causation, abstract entities, identity.

### PHILOS 102W — Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 3 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Overlaps with PHILOS 102, LPS 102
- (Ib)

A study of one or more of the basic issues in epistemology, e.g., the role of perception in the acquisition of knowledge, the nature of evidence, the distinction between belief and knowledge, and the nature of truth and certainty.

### PHILOS 103 — Introduction to Moral Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

A study of one or more of the problems of contemporary moral philosophy, e.g., the nature of justice, liberalism versus conservatism, happiness and its relation to virtue and right conduct, the objectivity of moral standards.

### PHILOS 104 — Introduction to Logic

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 104, LSCI 142

Introduction to sentence logic, including truth tables and natural deduction; and to predicate logic, including semantics and natural deduction.

### PHILOS 105A — Introduction to Set Theory and Mathematical Reasoning

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 105A, LSCI 145A

An introduction to the basic working vocabulary of mathematical reasoning and proof. Topics include sets, Boolean operations, ordered n-tuples, relations, functions, induction, and their applications to mathematical philosophy.

### PHILOS 105B — Metalogic

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** LSCI 145A or LPS 105A or PHILOS 105A
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 105B, LSCI 145B
- Overlaps with MATH 150

Introduction to formal syntax (proof theory) and semantics (model theory) for first-order logic, including the deduction, completeness, compactness, and Löewenheim-Skolem theorems.

### PHILOS 105C — Undecidability and Incompleteness

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** LSCI 145B or LPS 105B or PHILOS 105B
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 105C, LSCI 145C
- Concurrent: LPS 205C

Introduction to the formal theory of effective processes, including recursive functions, Turing machines, Church's thesis, and proofs of Göedel's incompleteness theorem for arithmetic, and Church's undecidability theorem for first-order logic.

### PHILOS 106 — Topics in Logic 

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** (LPS 105A or PHILOS 105A or LSCI 145A) and (LPS 105B or PHILOS 105B or LSCI 145B) and (LPS 105C or PHILOS 105C or LSCI 145C)
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 106, LSCI 106
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics in mathematical or philosophical logic.

### PHILOS 108 — Topics in Induction, Probability, and Decision Theory

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 108
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics in induction, probability, and decision theory.

### PHILOS 110 — Topics in Ancient Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken 2 times as topics vary

Selected topics from the writings of Plato and Aristotle, e.g., Aristotle's criticisms of Plato's metaphysics, ethics, or politics.

### PHILOS 113 — Topics in Modern Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 113
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Focuses on the works of central philosophical figures of modern Philosophy (e.g., Descartes, Leibniz, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Kant) or on the treatment of one or more central philosophical problems by a number of these figures.

### PHILOS 114 — Topics in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies of some of the major figures after Kant (e.g., Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Kierkegaard), especially in German idealism and social thought.

### PHILOS 115 — Topics in History of Analytic Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 115
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Review of central theories or figures in the history of analytic philosophy. Emphasis on writings of Frege, Russell, Schlick, Carnap, and Quine. Topics include the nature of meaning and truth, the synthetic/analytic distinction, and scientific knowledge.

### PHILOS 117 — Topics in Asian Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics in the philosophies of Asia, e.g. Jainism, Buddhism, Yoga, Vedanta, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto.

### PHILOS 120 — Topics in Metaphysics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 120
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Examines central philosophical questions concerning our own fundamental nature and that of the world around us (e.g., causation and necessity, determination, free will, personal identity, the mind-body problem).

### PHILOS 121 — Topics in the Theory of Knowledge 

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 121
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

One or more topics in the theory of knowledge, e.g., the nature of rational justification, of perceptual knowledge, of a priori knowledge.

### PHILOS 121A — Medical Epistemology

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)

Analysis of epistemological issues concerning medical research and health care. Topics may include medical evidence, transmission of medical knowledge, medical expertise, the epistemology of medical disagreement, classification of illnesses, well-being, philosophy of pain, and medical decision making.

### PHILOS 122 — Topics in Philosophy of Mind

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics involving the concept of mind, e.g., the relation between mind and body, the self, personal identity, consciousness, the unconscious.

### PHILOS 123 — Topics in Philosophy of Religion

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Critical examination of concepts involved in the theological literature, e.g., the nature and existence of God, miracles, the problem of evil, divine command theories in ethics.

### PHILOS 124 — Topics in Feminist Epistemology

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Investigates the nature of knowledge from a feminist standpoint. Emphasizes the relevance of the knower’s gender and social situatedness in knowledge practices against a traditional account of knowledge as a detached activity of an independent, neutral subject.

### PHILOS 130 — Topics in Moral Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics in ethics.

### PHILOS 131A — Applied Ethics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Topics may include capital punishment, world hunger, obligations to future generations, environmental ethics, animal rights, economic justice, sexual morality, affirmative action, racism and sexism, or legalization of drugs.

### PHILOS 131C — Medical Ethics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as REL STD 175

Analysis of moral issues concerning health care. Topics may include just allocation of scarce medical resources, the doctor/patient relationship, genetic engineering, surrogate motherhood, abortion, euthanasia, or social policy concerning AIDS.

### PHILOS 133 — Topics in Philosophy of Law

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics concerning legal systems and the concept of law, e.g., the nature and purpose of law, the nature of authority, the relationship between law and morality, law and political-economic systems.

### PHILOS 134 — Topics in Philosophy of Gender and Race

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Controversies about race and racism, and sex and sexism, continue to play an important role in the public domain. Explores philosophical questions relating to gender and race.

### PHILOS 135A — The Scientific Revolution

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as HISTORY 135A, LPS 135A

An examination of early modern European science from 1500-1700. Includes primary readings from central figures (Copernicus, Harvey, Bacon, Descartes, et al.); themes include the impact of printing, humanism, patronage, technology, and discussion of the term "revolution" in this context.

### PHILOS 140 — Topics in Philosophy of Science

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 140
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics in contemporary philosophy of science, e.g., the status of theoretical entities, the confirmation of theories, the nature of scientific explanation.

### PHILOS 141B — Geometry and Spacetime

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** MATH 2D and (MATH 3A or MATH 6G)
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 141B

An examination of the foundations of the special theory of relativity, with emphasis on the geometry of Minkowski spacetime, and its relation to both Euclidean and non-Euclidean (hyperbolic) plane geometries.

### PHILOS 141D — Probability and Determinism

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** MATH 2D and (MATH 3A or MATH 6G)
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 141D

An examination of a cluster of interrelated issues concerning probability, determinism, logic, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.

### PHILOS 143 — Topics in Philosophy of Psychology

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 143
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary
- Restrictions: Philosophy majors have the first consideration for enrollment

Selected topics in the philosophy of psychology, e.g., the nature of psychological explanation, reductionism, issues in cognitive, behavioral, and neuroscience.

### PHILOS 144 — Topics in Philosophy of Social Science

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 144
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics in the philosophy of the social sciences, e.g.: Is their goal to understand behavior or to predict and control it? Are they normative and the natural sciences not? Do they incorporate philosophical doctrines about language and mind?

### PHILOS 145 — Topics in Philosophy of Language

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 145, LSCI 141
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics in the philosophy of language, e.g., the nature of meaning, mechanisms of reference, speech acts.

### PHILOS 147 — Topics in Philosophy of Mathematics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 147
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected historical and contemporary topics in the philosophy of mathematics, e.g., mathematical truth and ontology, mathematical knowledge, the nature and role of proof, the workings of mathematics in application.

### PHILOS 150 — Phenomenology 

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

A study of the foundations of phenomenology in Husserl and its background in Bolzano, Frege, Brentano, Meinong, Kant, and Descartes.

### PHILOS 162 — Social Ontology

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Examines how things in one’s social environment exist. Such things are compared and contrasted to others in what might be regarded as the given, natural environment. Topics discussed include natural kinds; artifacts; essentialism; constructivism; intentionality; agency.

### PHILOS 163 — Social Epistemology

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Social epistemology is specifically concerned with questions concerning knowledge and justification that arise in a social context. Topics discussed include testimony, experts, disagreement, group knowledge, feminist epistemology, legal epistemology, and epistemology of education.

### PHILOS 164 — Well-Being

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)

Examines what it is that makes a life good (or bad) for the person who lives it. Topics include hedonism, desire-satisfaction theories of well-being (as well as other such theories), the notion of harm, the possibility of posthumous harm.

### PHILOS 165 — Philosophy of Action

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule

Philosophy of action is specifically concerned with questions concerning the nature of acting, and related phenomena such as intending, willing, trying, and trusting. It deals both with individual and group action and their moral and epistemological underpinnings.

### PHILOS 166 — Philosophy of Education

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Exploration of the philosophical and historical underpinnings of education. Examination of educational theories and influential educational figures, comparison of critical thinking development with intellectual character cultivations, and analysis of philosophies of education through works by Rousseau, Locke, and others.

### PHILOS 167 — Intellectual Virtue

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Examination of intellectual virtues of humility, intellectual tenacity, intellectual courage, and integrity via historical foundations, classical traditions, and relevance to contemporary topics of epistemology.

### PHILOS 190 — Special Topics in Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Lectures on selected topics to be given by regular faculty and visiting faculty.

### PHILOS 199 — Directed Special Studies

- **Units:** 2-4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 15 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Independent study on a research topic supervised by a faculty member.

### PHILOS 199H — Honors Directed Special Studies

- **Units:** 2
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Grading Option: Pass/Not Pass only
- Repeatability: May be taken for credit 2 times

Independent study on a research topic supervised by a faculty member, with the objective of preparing the Department of Philosophy honors paper.

### PHILOS 200 — Special Topics in Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Seminars on selected topics to be given by regular faculty and visiting faculty.

### PHILOS 201 — First-Year Seminar

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken for credit 2 times
- Restrictions: Philosophy majors and Logic and Philosophy Of Science majors only

An examination of some standard works in the history of philosophy, value theory, metaphysics, or epistemology; required of all first-year Philosophy graduate students in the School of Humanities.

### PHILOS 205A — Introduction to Set Theory and Mathematical Reasoning

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 205A

An introduction to the basic working vocabulary of mathematical reasoning and proof. Topics include sets, Boolean operations, ordered n-tuples, relations, functions, induction, and their applications to mathematical philosophy.

### PHILOS 205B — Metalogic

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** PHILOS 205A with a minimum grade of B- or LPS 205A with a minimum grade of B-
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 205B

Formal syntax (proof theory) and semantics (model theory) for first-order logic, including the deduction, completeness, compactness, and Loewenheim-Skolem theorems.

### PHILOS 205C — Undecidability and Incompleteness

- **Units:** 4
- **Prerequisite:** PHILOS 205B with a minimum grade of B- or LPS 205B with a minimum grade of B-
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 205C
- Concurrent: LPS 105C

Formal theory of effective processes, including recursive function, Turing machines, Church's thesis, proofs of Goedel's incompleteness theorem for arithmetics, and Church's undecidability for first-order logic.

### PHILOS 206 — Topics in Logic 

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 206
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of logic. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 210 — Topics in Ancient Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of ancient philosophy. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 212 — Topics in Renaissance Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of renaissance philosophy. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 213 — Topics in Modern Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 213
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of modern philosophy. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 215 — Topics in Analytic Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 215
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of analytic philosophy. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 218 — Topics in Contemporary Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of contemporary philosophy. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 220 — Topics in Metaphysics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 220
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of metaphysics. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 221 — Topics in Epistemology

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 221
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of epistemology. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 221A — Medical Epistemology

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 221A

Analysis of epistemological issues concerning medical research and healthcare. Topics may include medical evidence, transmission of medical knowledge in the doctor-patient interaction, medical expertise, epistemology of medical disagreement, classification of illness, well-being, philosophy of pain, or medical decision making.

### PHILOS 222 — Topics in Mind and Action

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of mind and action. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 230 — Topics in Ethics 

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of ethics. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 232 — Topics in Political and Social Philosophy

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 232
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of political and social philosophy. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 240 — Topics in Philosophy of Science

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 240
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of philosophy of science. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 241 — Topics in Philosophy of Physics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 241
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of philosophy of physics. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 242 — Topics in Philosophy of Biology

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 242
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of philosophy of biology. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 243 — Topics in Philosophy of Psychology

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 243
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Selected topics in the philosophy of psychology, e.g., the nature of psychological explanation, reductionism, issues in cognitive, behavioral, and neuroscience.

### PHILOS 244 — Topics in Philosophy of Social Science

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Same as LPS 244
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of philosophy and social science. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 244A — PPE Proseminar I

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 244A

Introduces tools and concepts useful for working in the intersection of philosophy, political science, and economics. These are drawn from probability theory, decision theory, and the psychology of belief, knowledge, and rational choice.

### PHILOS 244B — PPE Proseminar II

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 244B

Introduces some of the main theoretical topics at the intersection of philosophy, political science, and economics. PPE II covers (1) Rational Choice based game theory, (2) Evolutionary Game Theory, and (3) Voting and Social Choice.

### PHILOS 245 — Topics in Philosophy of Language

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 245
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of philosophy of language. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 246 — Topics in Philosophy of Logic

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 246
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of philosophy of logic. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 247 — Topics in Philosophy of Mathematics

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LPS 247
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas of philosophy of mathematics. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

### PHILOS 298 — Independent Study

- **Units:** 4-12
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 15 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Independent research with Philosophy faculty.

### PHILOS 299 — Directed Research

- **Units:** 4-12
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 15 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Directed research with Philosophy faculty.

### PHILOS 399 — University Teaching

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/philos.md)
- Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Limited to Teaching Assistants.