Carnap Rudolf (1891–1970), German-born American philosopher, one of the leaders of...

Carneades See ACADEMY.

Carroll Lewis, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–98), English writer...

Cartesian circle See DESCARTES.

Cartesian demon See DESCARTES.

Cartesian dualism See DUALISM, PHILOSOPHY OF. MIN.

Cartesian interactionism See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Cartesian product See SET THEORY.

Cartesianism See DESCARTES.

Carvaka Indian materialism. Its varieties share the view that the mind...

Cassirer Ernst (1874–1945), German philosopher and intellectual historian. He was born...

Castañeda Hector-Neri (1924–91), American analytical philosopher. Heavily influenced by his own...

Casuistry the case-analysis approach to the interpretation of general moral rules....

Categorematic See SYNCATEGOREMATA.

Categorematica See SYNCATEGOREMATA.

Categorical grammar See GRAMMAR.

Categorical imperative See KANT.

Categorical proposition See SYLLOGISM.

Categorical theory a theory all of whose models are isomorphic. Because of...

Categorical-in-power See CATEGORICAL THEORY.

Categories of the understanding See KANT.

Categories, table of See KANT.

Category an ultimate class. Categories are the highest genera of entities...

Category mistake the placing of an entity in the wrong category. In...

Category theory a mathematical theory that studies the universal properties of structures...

Category-preserving See LOGICAL FORM.

Causa sui (Latin 'cause of itself'), an expression applied to God to mean...

Causal chain See CAUSATION.

Causal closure See DAVIDSON.

Causal decision theory See DECISION THEORY.