Evelyn B. Pluhar-Adams (born July 8, 1947) is an American philosopher specialising inmoral philosophy andthe philosophy of mind, especially concerning themoral status of animals.^[1][2]

Evelyn Pluhar studied for a bachelor's degree in philosophy at theUniversity of Denver before going on to read for a doctorate in philosophy at theUniversity of Michigan. Her doctoral thesis was entitledThe Ontological Status of Colour. She has spent much of her career atPennsylvania State University,Fayette Campus, where she was anassistant professor of philosophy from 1978 to 1984, anassociate professor of philosophy from 1984 to 1996, and a professor of philosophy from 1996.^[1]

She is the author of the 1995 bookBeyond Prejudice: The Moral Significance of Human and Nonhuman Animals, which was published byDuke University Press. InBeyond Prejudice, Pluhar explores theargument from marginal cases, rejecting arguments that present humans as uniquely morally significant, and argues for an account ofanimal rights built uponethical rationalism.^[3][4][5]

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