This article proposes a conceptualization of the scientific environment as a constitutive condition of scientific creativity aimed at overcoming the fragmentation characteristic of contemporary studies of creativity in science. The point of departure is the disunity of psychological, sociological, historical, and philosophical approaches identified in the works of I.P. Merkulov, A.S. Maidanov, V.S. Stepin, I.T. Kasavin, and other scholars. As an integrative framework, the concept of the scientific environment is introduced and understood as a multilayered structure encompassing material, socio-institutional, cognitive-methodological, and cultural-normative dimensions, as well as two cross-cutting dimensions: temporality and continuity. The central thesis is that the scientific environment does not function merely as an external background of scientific activity, but rather structures the conditions of its realization and the ways in which the results of scientific creativity are interpreted and evaluated. It is shown that material practices and instruments participate in the construction of facts; social institutions establish the normative and communicative framework within which results are recognized; cognitive and methodological structures shape the modes of problem formulation and problem solving; and cultural values constitute the horizons of significance of scientific activity. The temporal dimension reveals the plurality of scientific rhythms, whereas the dimension of continuity explicates the mechanisms underlying the reproduction of tacit knowledge and scientific traditions. The article substantiates both the irreducibility and the interconnectedness of these dimensions: scientific creativity becomes possible only through their coordinated configuration. The article concludes by demonstrating the heuristic potential of the proposed model for post-non-classical philosophy of science oriented toward a holistic understanding of science as a historically grounded and culturally conditioned form of activity.
science; scientific creativity; scientific environment; scientific community; temporality; continuity; synergetics.