Oliva BLANCHETTE (n. 1929) este profesor emerit la Boston College. A fost presedinte al The Metaphysical Society of America si International Society for Metaphysics. Este autorul volumelor: For a Fundamental Social Ethic: A Philosophy of Social Change. New York: Philosophical Library, 1973; The Perfection of the Universe According to Aquinas: A Teleological Cosmology. College Park: Penn State University Press, 1992; Ethical Judgment in Health Care: Overcoming the Technological Bias. The Boston College Press, 2003; Philosophyof Being: A Reconstructive Essay in Metaphysics. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2003. Winner of the J.N. Findlay Award of the Metaphysical Society of America for Best Book in Metaphysics, 2007; Maurice Blondel: A Philosophical Life. Grand Rapids, MI / Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010; Intersubjective Philosophy of Human Existence: Reflection on Theory and Practice of Selfhood. Revised edition. The Eagle Press, 2014.