This paper discusses the recent realistic turn in philosophy and social sciences.The extreme oscillation of the epistemological pendulum toward radical constructivism (i.e. textualism and the lost of a realty “out there”) has produced a suitable counter oscillation toward realism and a renewed claim for a positivistic foundation of knowledge and praxis. Are we throwing the baby out with the bath water? The paper argues that constructivism a) doesn’t necessarily presuppose an antirealistic ontological premise; b) it implies some version of truth-as-correspondence criterion; c) it assumes the constitutive role of language and concepts in making a representation of reality and in assessing the truth value of the statement conveying this repres...