Gil Hersch Awarded PPE Society Grant to Advance Interdisciplinary Research

The David H. Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics is pleased to announce that Gil Hersch, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Philosophy and PPE Core Faculty member, has been awarded a PPE Society grant to advance his work in interdisciplinary research.

The PPE Research Consortium, funded through a significant Templeton Foundation grant and overseen by the PPE Society, supports forward‑thinking work that integrates perspectives from philosophy, politics, and economics. This collaborative project, led by Gil Hersch with co‑investigator Donghao Zhu and team members Jianming Shi and Mung Hu, bridges philosophy and operations management to rethink how fairness is understood in queuing systems. While queuing theory in operations management offers rigorous mathematical tools, it often relies on intuitive or underdeveloped notions of fairness. Conversely, philosophical work on allocative fairness has rarely addressed the real‑world complexities of queues, despite their importance in both everyday situations and high‑stakes environments.

This project brings these fields together by developing a philosophically grounded account of procedural fairness tailored to queuing contexts. The team aims to formalize this concept so it can inform both philosophical debates about fairness over time and operations management research seeking more robust fairness criteria. The result will be a framework that strengthens philosophical understanding of temporal fairness and provides operations researchers with a defensible foundation for fairness‑based modeling in queuing theory.

For more information about this award, please visit the following link.

(Photograph provided by Gil Hersch – used with permission)