Although the main arena for the scientific realism debate is analytic philosophy, the issues at stake are no less relevant for philosophers with phenomenological leanings. Does the success of science give us reason to believe that our best current theories approximate the goal of telling a literally true story about the deep structure of reality? Or should we be more modest in that we only expect theories to yield knowledge of the observable layers of reality? Or are these questions ill-posed in a way that makes them impossible to answer right from the outset? In my talk I will consider a take on the issue that has recently been presented by Emiliano Trizio. Although Trizio’s transcendental take on the scientific realism debate has its advantages, there are still several concerns of varying degrees of magnitude. In my talk, I will focus on the most pressing of these, a problem to which I will refer as the problem of coordination.