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View submission: Which side shoulders the burden of proof?
I think anyone with an opinion on the matter should be able to say why they hold that view. All evidence should count, but better evidence should win out over weaker evidence. The subjective feeling of making a free will decision counts, but not much. A hasty generalization, like all of physics is deterministic so free will is impossible, should not be very persuasive either. You are never going to persuade people with deductive logic without first having everyone agree on all of the premises.
I believe that the best arguments will come from biology/neuroscience. In this respect we need to have mechanistic understanding of both the behavioral aspects as well as support from the mechanisms of neuronal activity in the brain that instantiates the behavior.
I think the libertarians including Kevin Mitchell and Peter Tse are further ahead in this than many lay people recognize. Each have a recent book giving good positive evidence for free will.
There's nothing here!