 Cooperation between scientists was already a central concern in the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. For Neurath, the motivation for connecting laws of different scientific fields was explicitly practical. Taking the example of the control of a forest fire, he argues that a successful intervention requires connecting chemical, biological and sociological laws, and the unity of the language of science was supposed to facilitate these connections (Neurath 1983). In his contribution to the Encyclopedia, Dewey emphasizes the societal need for cooperation between scientists working in different fields, calling for