HARAWAY,DONNA METATHEORY OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION - CYBORGS, TRICKSTER, AND HERMES

This article is a close reading of two essays by Donna Haraway on femi nist philosophy, the biophysical sciences, and critical social theory. Haraway's strong social constructionist approach to science is critic ized by colleague Sandra Harding, resulting in an epistemological reco nceptualization of objectivity by Haraway. Haraway's notion of ''situa ted knowledges'' provides a workable epistemology for all social and b iophysical sciences, while inviting the reintegration of religions as critical conversation partners in an emancipatory hermeneutics of natu re, culture, and technology.