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- C. D. BroadEnglish philosopher (1887–1971)
- C. I. LewisAmerican philosopher (1883–1964)
- Calls from the Message of FatimaCalls from the Message of Fatima, also known as Appeals from the Message of Fatima, is a 2
- Capital punishment for homosexualityCapital punishment as a criminal punishment for homosexuality has been implemented by a nu
- Cappadocian FathersGroup of early Christian chaplains
- Cardinal virtuesVirtues of mind and character
- Carl Gustav HempelGerman writer and philosopher (1905–1997)
- Carnap PapersArchive of Rudolf Carnap in Pittsburgh
- Carpineto RomanoCarpineto Romano is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italia
- Cartesian circleError in reasoning attributed to René Descartes
- Cartesian diverClassic science experiment demonstrating the Archimedes' principle and the ideal gas law
- Cartesian doubtForm of methodological skepticism
- Cartesian materialismConcept in philosophy of mind
- Cartesian theaterPhilosophical term
- CartesianismPhilosophical and scientific system of René Descartes
- CassiodorusMagnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585), commonly known as Cassiodorus (), w
- CasuistryReasoning by extrapolation
- Cataphatic theologyWay of describing the divine by using affirmative-form statements
- Categorical imperativeCentral concept in Kantian moral philosophy
- Categorical propositionStatement regarding whether or not an item belongs to a category
- Categories (Aristotle)Text from Aristotle's Organon
- Categories (Peirce)On May 14, 1867, the 27–year-old Charles Sanders Peirce, who eventually founded pragmatism
- Category (Kant)Pure concept of the understanding in Kantianism
- Category mistakeAscribing an impossible property to a thing
- Catherine of GenoaCatherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, 1447 – 15 September 1510) was an Italian Cath
- Catherine of SienaItalian Dominican philosopher and saint (1347–1380)
- Catholic moral theologyMajor category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics
- Catholic probabilismChristian theological doctrine
- Catholic social teachingSocial doctrine of the Catholic Church
- Catholic theologyStudy of the doctrines of the Catholic Church
- Catriona MackenzieAustralian philosopher
- Causa suiTerm that denotes something that is generated within itself
- Causal adequacy principleThe causal adequacy principle (CAP), or causal reality principle, is a philosophical claim
- Causal theory of referenceTheory that terms acquire referents via a chain of usage events
- Causality (physics)Physics of the cause–effect relation
- Cautionary taleTale told in folklore to warn its listener of a danger
- Cebu Taoist TempleCebu Taoist Temple (simplified Chinese: 宿雾定光宝殿; traditional Chinese: 宿霧定光寶殿; pinyin: Sùwù
- Center for American ProgressLiberal think tank in the United States
- Center for InquiryAmerican nonprofit advocacy group
- Center for the Study of BioethicsBioethics research institute in Belgrade, Serbia
- Centre for Inquiry CanadaThe Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) is a not-for-profit educational organization with hea
- Centre for Intelligent DesignThe Centre for Intelligent Design is an advocacy group, headquartered in Scotland that pro
- CertaintyBelief without doubt in propositions that are in fact true
- Ceteris paribusLatin phrase
- Chaldean OraclesSpiritual and philosophical texts used by Neoplatonist philosophers
- Chance and NecessityChance and Necessity: Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (French: Le Hasard
- Chandogya UpanishadOne of the ancient Sanskrit holy scriptures of Hinduism
- Chaos (cosmogony)Void state preceding creation
- Charles de BovellesFrench mathematician and philosopher
- Charles De KoninckCharles De Koninck MSRC (29 July 1906 – 13 February 1965) was a Belgian-Canadian Thomist p
- Charles FourierFrench utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)
- Charles Jackson (judge)Charles Jackson (31 May 1775 – 13 December 1855) was an American jurist based in Massachus
- Charles Leonard HamblinAustralian philosopher, logician and computer scientist (1922–1985)
- Charles Santiago Sanders PeirceAmerican philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
- Chellis GlendinningChellis Glendinning (born 1947) is an author and activist. She has been called a pioneer i
- Chen MengleiQing dynasty writer of the Gujin Tushu Jicheng encyclopedia
- Chen YuanjingWriter of Yuan dynasty encyclopedia Shilin Guangji
- Cherry pickingFallacy of incomplete evidence
- China brainPhilosophical experiment
- Chinese classicsClassic texts of Chinese literature
- Chinese dictionaryThere are two types of dictionaries regularly used in the Chinese language: 'character dic
- Chinese philosophyType of philosophy
- Chinese roomThought experiment on artificial intelligence
- Chinese theologyChinese theological conception of Heaven
- ChinoiserieEuropean interpretation and imitation of Chinese and other East Asian artistic traditions
- Chris Matthew SciabarraAmerican activist
- Christian apologeticsChristian theology that defends Christianity against objections
- Christian CoseruAmerican philosopher
- Christian ethicsBranch of theology that defines virtuous and sinful behavior from a Christian perspective
- Christian existentialismExistentialist approach to Christian theology
- Christian humanismType of humanism
- Christian philosophyPhilosophy carried out by Christians
- Christian Smith (sociologist)Christian Stephen Smith (born 1960) is an American sociologist, currently the William R. K
- Christian theosophyEsoteric Christian movement
- Christian von EhrenfelsAustrian philosopher (1859–1932)
- Christianity and ancient Greek philosophyChristianity and Hellenistic philosophies experienced complex interactions during the firs
- ChristianizationConversion of society or culture to Christianity
- Christine KorsgaardAmerican philosopher in Left-Kantian tradition
- Christological argumentArgument for the existence of God
- Christoph DemmerlingGerman philosopher
- Chronological snobberyChronological snobbery is an argument that the thinking, art, or science of an earlier tim
- ChrysippusGreek Stoic philosopher (c.279–c.206 BC)
- Chữ HánChinese characters used in Vietnamese writing
- ChukwuSupreme being of Igbo spirituality
- Church FathersEarly influential Christian theologians
- Cinema 1: The Movement Image1983 book by Gilles Deleuze
- Cinema 2: The Time-Image1985 book by Gilles Deleuze
- Circular definitionSelf-referential description of meaning
- Circular reasoningLogical fallacy in which the conclusion provides the premise
- Civic virtueSet of moral qualities that promote the common good
- Civil discourseCivic deliberation over public affairs issues
- Civil Disobedience (essay)1849 essay by Henry David Thoreau
- Claire ColebrookAustralian cultural theorist
- Classic of Filial Piety4th-century BC Chinese Confucian work
- Classic of PoetryCollection of ancient Chinese poetry
- Classical logicClass of formal logics
- Classical republicanismSubideology of republicanism formed during the Renaissance era
- Classical rhetoricPersuasive language in ancient Greece and Rome
- Classical theismForm of theism
- Classificatory disputes about artDisputes about what should and should not be classified as art
- Claude Adrien HelvétiusFrench philosopher (1715–1771)
- Cluster criticismMethod in rhetorical criticism
- Cognitive rhetoricCognitive rhetoric refers to an approach to rhetoric, composition, and pedagogy as well as
- Cognitivism (ethics)Meta-ethical theory
- Coherence theory of truthTheory of truth based on coherence
- CoherentismType of epistemology
- Collationes in Hexaemeron1273 lecture series by St. Bonaventure
- Commensurability (philosophy of science)Scientific concept
- Commentaries on PlatoCommentaries on Plato refers to the great mass of literature produced, especially in the a
- Common goodWhat is shared and beneficial for all or most members of a given community
- Common law of business balanceThe common law of business balance, often expressed as "you get what you pay for", is the
- Common senseBasic level of knowledge and judgement shared by nearly all people
- Common Sense1776 pamphlet by Thomas Paine
- Communitas perfectaTheory of the Catholic Church
- Comparative literatureAcademic discipline
- Comparative political theoryAcademic subfield
- CompatibilismPhilosophical concept about free will
- Complex questionQuestion that has a built-in supposition
- Composition studiesField of research focused on composition
- CompromiseNegotiation strategy
- Computer ethicsPhilosophy concept in computing
- ConceptFundamental unit of cognition
- Conceptions of GodConceptions of God in classical theist, monotheist, pantheist, and panentheist traditions
- Conceptions of logicThe history of logic as a subject has been characterised by many disputes over what the to
- Conceptual frameworkMethod of organizing information
- Conceptual modelTheoretical framework
- ConceptualismMetaphysical theory
- Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical FragmentsWork by Søren Kierkegaard
- Condemnations of 1210–1277Medieval restrictions questioning Aristotelianism
- Conditional sentenceSentence expressing an 'if-then' relation
- Confirmation holismIn philosophy of science, confirmation holism, also called epistemological holism, is the
- Conflict thesisConcept in history of science
- Confucian churchCongregational religious institutions of Confucianism
- Confucian ritual religionConfucian ritual religion (s 礼教, t 禮教 Lǐjiào, "rites' transmission", also called 名教 Míngji
- Confucian royal ancestral shrineWorship of royal ancestors in East Asia
- ConfucianismChinese ethical and philosophical system
- Confucianism in the United StatesConfucianism in the United States dates back to accounts of missionaries who traveled to C
- Confusion of the inverseLogical fallacy
- Congregatio de AuxiliisCommission established by Pope Clement VIII
- ConnectionismCognitive science approach
- ConnectivismTheory of learning in a digital age
- ConnotationCultural or emotional association
- Connotation (semiotics)In semiotics, connotation arises when the denotative relationship between a signifier and
- ConsanguinismConsanguinism is an element of Confucianism referenced in modern discussions of Chinese ph
- ConscienceMoral philosophy or values of an individual
- Consciousness Explained1991 book by Daniel Dennett
- Consensus theory of truthConcept in epistemology
- Consent of the governedConsent as source of political legitimacy
- ConsequentialismEthical theory based on consequences
- ConsiliencePrinciple about evidence
- Consistent life ethicEthic opposing loss of life
- Constitutive rhetoricTheory of discourse
- Construct (philosophy)Object whose existence depends upon a subject's mind
- Constructive empiricismIn philosophy of science, constructive empiricism is a form of empiricism. While it is som
- Constructive realismBranch of the philosophy of science
- Constructivism (philosophy of science)Branch in philosophy of science
- Contemporary philosophyCurrent period in the history of Western philosophy
- ContextualismSubject of inquiry in philosophy and linguistics
- Continental philosophyPhilosophical traditions from mainland Europe
- Contingency (philosophy)Possible truths which are not necessary
- Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity1989 book by Richard Rorty
- Contra Errores GraecorumContra errores Graecorum, ad Urbanum IV Pontificem Maximum (Against the Errors of the Gree
- Contra principia negantem non est disputandumLatin phrase
- ContradictionLogical incompatibility between two or more propositions
- ControversiaExercise in rhetoric
- Controversy over Cantor's theoryAbout mathematical infinity
- Conversational scoreboardIn linguistics and philosophy of language, the conversational scoreboard is a tuple which
- Converse (logic)Concept in mathematical logic
- Conway HallConway Hall is a building in Red Lion Square, London. The structure, which is the headquar
- Conway Hall Ethical SocietyOldest surviving freethought and Ethical society in the UK and world
- Copleston–Russell debateThe Copleston–Russell debate is an exchange concerning the existence of God between Freder
- Cornelius CastoriadisGreek-French philosopher (1922–1997)
- Corpus HermeticumCollection of late antique religio-philosophical texts
- Correspondence theory of truthTheory that truth means correspondence with reality
- Cosmographia (Bernardus Silvestris)Book by Bernard Silvestris
- Cosmological argumentArgument for the existence of God
- Counter-experienceCounter-experience describes a perception of a non-objective (typically spiritual) phenome
- Creation MuseumMuseum in Kentucky promoting creationism
- Creation scienceCreation science or scientific creationism is a pseudoscientific form of Young Earth creat
- CreationismBelief that nature originated through supernatural acts
- Creationism (soul)Creationism is a doctrine held by some Christians that God creates a soul for each body th
- Creator deityEntity that created the universe
- Creator in BuddhismBuddhist views on the belief in a creator deity, or any eternal divine personal being
- Crèche (zoology)In zoology, a crèche (from a French term for childcare) is an animal behaviour where offsp
- Criminal justice ethicsCriminal justice ethics (also police ethics) is the academic study of ethics as it is appl
- Criteria of truthStandards and rules used to judge the accuracy of statements and claims
- CriticPerson who offers reasoned judgment
- Critical animal studiesInterdisciplinary field and community
- Critical rationalismEpistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Popper
- Critical thinkingAnalysis of facts to form a judgment
- Criticism of atheismCriticism of the concepts, validity and impact of atheism
- Criticism of ChristianityCriticism of Christianity has a long history that stretches back to the initial formation
- Criticism of democracyCritiques of democratic political systems
- Criticism of IslamCriticism of Islam can take many forms, including academic critiques, political criticism,
- Criticism of JudaismCriticism of Jewish religious doctrines, texts, laws, and practices
- Criticism of MuhammadCriticisms of the main prophet of Islam
- Criticism of religionCriticism against religions
- Criticism of scienceCritical observation of science
- Criticism of the Baháʼí FaithThe Baháʼí Faith is a relatively new religion that teaches the essential worth of all reli
- Criticism of the BibleCriticism of the Bible, the collection of religious texts held to be sacred by Christianit
- Criticism of the Catholic ChurchDuring its long history, the Catholic Church has been subject to criticism regarding vario
- Criticism of the QuranCriticism of Islam's holy book
- Criticism of ZoroastrianismCritical views of the Zoroastrian religion
- CritiqueMethod of logic and critical thinking
- Critique of Dialectical Reason1960 book by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Critique of Judgment1790 book by Immanuel Kant
- Critique of Practical Reason1788 book by Immanuel Kant
- Critique of the Kantian Philosophy1818 philosophical work by Arthur Schopenhauer
- CuckoldHusband of an adulterous wife
- CulpabilityDegree to which one is morally or legally responsible for a crime
- Cultural materialism (cultural studies)Marxist theory of culture
- Cultural turn1970s movement in the humanities and social sciences
- Culture industryCommercial mass marketing of culture
