The graduate program in philosophy at Purdue offers its students the opportunity to pursue an unusually diversified and well-balanced plan of study. In addition to research specializations from across the field of contemporary analytic philosophy, the department's faculty also exhibit strengths in the history of philosophy and in continental European philosophy. Students acquire a solid grounding in four traditional areas of philosophy (the history of philosophy, metaphysics and epistemology, value theory, and logic, language, and science) before developing their own specialized research programs.