“In practice, we are all scientific realists.”

Does scientific realism have a history? Or is it a grand metaphysical abstraction that all must ultimately submit to regardless of their times and places in history?

It seems to me that the development of scientific realism has a history. It also seems to me that you have conflated your particular interpretive lens (scientific realism) for the basic nature of human beings. That is basically my qualms with structural approaches such as yours.

If we all are ultimately scientific realists, then it seems to me that we lack agency. In your view, can I not be a scientific realist?