ABSTRACT
The self can be understood in objective metaphysical terms as a bundle of properties, as a substance, or as some other kind of entity on our metaphysical list of what there is. This chapter explores the ontology of the subjectively enduring self, an ontology that is structured by one's subjective temporal experience and imaginative identity with one's first-personal, conscious perspective in the present, the past and the future. Temporally forward projection of one's first-personal point of view is an anticipatory and imaginative act of prospective representation. Temporally backward projection of one's first-personal point of view is a memory-like and imaginative act of retrospective representation. The structure of subjective endurance for an individual is grounded by the nature of the first-personal experience. Gradual change in the nature of near temporal experience is consistent with having the qualitatively same agential perspective throughout a short subjective temporal extent.
