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.<br><br>The department has sixteen faculty members, one of whom is officially designated as a Distinguished Professor by the University. Research pursuits of individual faculty have been supported in recent years by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Templeton Foundation, the Center for Philosophy and Religion, and the Pew Charitable Trust. Overlapping faculty research areas reflect departmental research strengths that provide a wide opportunity for student research areas here at Purdue.