Slurs, Words, and Articulations: Critical Notice on _Inflammatory Language_ by Una Stojnić and Ernie Lepore

The Articulation Account provides a novel explanation of how slurs shock and offend their audiences, and is defended by Stojnić and Lepore (2025). The account is defined by two primary commitments: to being articulation-based and to being associationist. I look at these commitments and consider some reasons to be hesitant about adopting them. Along the way, I discuss the inheritance phenomenon, one of the major pieces of evidence given in support of the Articulation Account, and question its scope.