Article is devoted to consideration of philosophical aspects of a phenomenon of scientific creativity. It is shown, that the creative knowledge is active creative process as a result of which there are essentially new systems, knowledge, skills, techniques.
In the paper the results of the empirical investigation of the characteristics of the social-psychological adaptation of students of the first courses from the point of view of their creative facilities are analyzed. The interconnection between the studied phenomena and the difference of the adaptation components of students with different creative potential is established.
