Sidney Edward Mezes (September 23, 1863 – September 10, 1931) was an American philosopher.

Biography

He was born in what is now the town of Belmont, California on September 23, 1863, to a Spanish-born father and Italian-born mother. He graduated in 1884 from the

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in engineering and was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity. After returning to university, he graduated in 1890 from

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, in philosophy, being awarded a doctorate there in 1893. From 1893 to 1894 he taught philosophy at the

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. From 1894 he was for, 20 years, in positions at the University of Texas, becoming a professor there in 1906. From 1908 he was president of the University. In 1914 he became president of the College of the City of New York. In 1917 he was appointed as Director of ''

the Inquiry The Inquiry was a study group established in September 1917 by Woodrow Wilson to prepare materials for the peace negotiations following World War I. The group, composed of around 150 academics, was directed by the presidential adviser Edward Hou ...

'', a think tank set up by Woodrow Wilson to study the diplomatic position that would follow a victorious end to World War I. He was part of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the

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in 1919. In 1896, he married Annie Olive Hunter, a sister-in-law of Edward M. House. He died on September 10, 1931 in

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Works

*''The Conception of God, A Philosophical Discussion Concerning the Nature of the Divine Idea as a Demonstrable Reality'' (1897) with

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George Holmes Howison George Holmes Howison (29 November 1834 – 31 December 1916) was an American philosopher who established the philosophy department at the University of California, Berkeley and held the position there of Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral ...

*''Ethics, Descriptive and Explanatory'' (1901) *''What Really Happened at Paris'', edited by

Charles Seymour Charles Seymour (January 1, 1885 – August 11, 1963) was an American academic, historian and the 15th President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951. As an academic administrator, he was instrumental in establishing Yale's residential colleg ...

and Edward Mandell House (1921) contributor

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mezes, Sidney Edward 1863 births 1931 deaths American philosophers Presidents of the University of Texas at Austin Harvard University alumni UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni Presidents of City College of New York American people of Italian descent People from Belmont, California

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