Is it really real, son?

On William Gillis's "Did The Science Wars Take Place", and the stakes of antirealism (i)

This is a first post in what is probably going to have to be a short series. Here I do some introductory work and try to lay out the stakes of my engagement with William Gillis’s Did The Science Wars Take Place? The Political and Ethical Stakes of Radical Realism. There is not much in this post directly about the book itself, i.e. engaging with the part…