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“Critical realism” in its many variations retains an important position in today’s scientific and theological debate. While advanced by Ian Barbour, John Polkinghorne and Arthur Peacocke, an analysis of its origin and meaning leads to the question of whether this position proposed by scientist-theologians misses an intrinsic feature of the personal dimension of reality, incorporated in the human sciences. Considering social science’s insight that persons responsible for their conclusions and actions drive the process of science, the ethical aspect of science may not be overlooked. To integrate these aspects into a coherent position requires a more differentiated epistemological model, grounded in ethics. The idea proposed in this paper is to modify critical realism into constructive-critical realism.