Philosophers API - Categories

Categories represent broad schools of thought, ideas, problems, and interests of philosophers. Category details in addition to including metadata about categories also include a list of philosophers associated with the given category.

Category is another of the top-level objects returned by the Philosophers API.

Sample Category:

{
    "abbreviation": "ep",
    "description": "Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that concerns the theory of knowledge and justified belief.",
    "images": {
        "banner800x600": "/Images/Epistemology@2x.png",
        "banner1200x900": "/Images/Epistemology@3x.png",
        "banner400x300": "/Images/Epistemology.png"
    },
    "wikiTitle": "Epistemology",
    "iepLink": "https://www.iep.utm.edu/epistemo/",
    "id": "5FB37033-12F0-4ED1-BA44-F0F2E279C4C0",
    "speLink": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemology/",
    "name": "Epistemology"
}

/api/categories: - Gets a list of all categories sorted by name.
/api/categories/search?keyword=<# keyword #>: - List of all categories matching search
/api/categories/<# category id #>: - Gets details of a category including associated philosophers
/api/categories/name/<# category name #>: - Gets details of a category including associated philosophers based on the passed in name (e.g. "Metaphysics," "Ethics," etc.)

All endpoint responses include a set of paths for various "banner" images for a category.

Sample Images:

...
"images": {
    "banner800x600": "/Images/Epistemology@2x.png",
    "banner1200x900": "/Images/Epistemology@3x.png",
    "banner400x300": "/Images/Epistemology.png"
}
...

Where images is a somewhat abstract alpha channel image that can be tinted and composited with a background color.

Sample Category Details:

{
    "name": "Ethics",
    "id": "1F68D9EC-93B5-45FE-A06B-27F19BC1FFFD",
    "speLink": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/",
    "associatedPhilosophers": [ ... ],
    "iepLink": "https://www.iep.utm.edu/ethics/",
    "abbreviation": "et",
    "images": {
        "banner800x600": "/Images/Ethics@2x.png",
        "banner1200x900": "/Images/Ethics@3x.png",
        "banner400x300": "/Images/Ethics.png"
    },
    "wikiTitle": "Ethics",
    "description": "Ethics attempts to systematize, define, and recommend right and wrong conduct."
}

id: - UUID that identifies a category
name: - The name of the category
description: - Brief, one-line description of the category
wikiTitle: - String of the title to the Wikipedia article about the category. URLs can be constructed as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<# wikiTitle #>
abbreviation: - Two-letter string that represents the category. Used for relating key ideas to categories.
speLink: - Optional URL to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article about the category
iepLink: - Optional URL to Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy article about the category
images: - Dictionary with image paths for various images, see above
associatedPhilosophers: - Array of philosophers associated with the category