Pia Antolic-Piper, professor of philosophy at James Madison University, will lecture at Washington and Lee University on Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. in Huntley 327. Antolic-Piper will speak on “How Practical is Practical Philosophy? Roger Bacon on the Full Task of Moral Philosophy.” Her talk is free and open to the public and is sponsored by W&L’s philosophy department.“My talk will center on the medieval thinker Roger Bacon,” said Antolic-Piper. “It will be mostly an exercise in the history of philosophy insofar as I will retrace Bacon’s reflections on what moral philosophy is and what it should be. However, Bacon’s arguments are also of enduring relevance in that, in a certain sense, there are universally true insights that can be gleaned from them and that pertain to the potential of moral philosophy to go beyond conceptual analysis and normative arguments and to extend to moral motivation.”