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Should parents of deaf infants give them cochlear implants to allow them to hear? Some advocates in the Deaf community argue that this practice is wrong and should be abandoned. Should parents listen to these advocates -- or are their arguments unsound and misleading? Professor Elizabeth Harman (Princeton) analyses a common anti-implant argument, and concludes it relies on a bad form of so-called "I'll be glad I did it" reasoning. But is curing deafness in infants any different than the hypothetical possibility of identifying and 'curing' homosexuality? How should we think about these sorts of interventions in infants more generally?

Philosophical Conversations - Sarah-Jane Leslie, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, conducts interviews with some of the world's leading philosophers through her association with the Marc Sanders Foundation. In this interview Professor Leslie meets with Elizabeth, Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University, to discuss the ethics of cochlear implantation in infants.