The epistemic gap between the personal and the impersonal

There appears to be an epistemic gap between the personal and the impersonal. The apparent epistemic gap presents a challenge to reductionist views about personal identity according to which facts about personal identity are grounded in impersonal facts about physical and/or psychological continuity. I discuss and reject two strategies of trying to close the apparent epistemic gap, a phenomenalist and a Cartesian one. I then develop and motivate an alternative account based on the special perspectival character of inside imagination. The imagination-based account explains why there seems to be an epistemic gap between the personal and the impersonal and at the same time avoids a corresponding ontological gap.