Abstract: From the viewpoints of both realism and constructivism， our theories about nature can be either reduced to the natural reality， or interpreted as the construction of social culture. This has pre-supposed the dualism between nature and culture. Donna Haraway， as a feminist scholar， has shown through her study of primatology that this dualism arises from the anthropomorphism. Influenced by the process philosophy of Whitehead， Haraway proposed the idea of companionship. Human and non-human， nature and culture are “becoming with” each other. This indicates that the subject and the object are generated from their companionship， which dispels dualism at the level of ontology. This also supplies the theoretical foundation for understanding nature from the perspective of “actors” .

Key words: companionship; becoming with; anthropomorphism