The phrase "advocated the view" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing someone's support or endorsement of a particular perspective or opinion.
Example: "The researcher advocated the view that climate change is primarily driven by human activities."
Alternatives: "supported the perspective" or "championed the opinion".
Giere has recently advocated the view that models are abstract entities (1988, 81).
Moreover, recent analyses of descriptions have advocated the view that what contributions the determiners make are not semantical, but rather pragmatic or syntactic (or both) in nature.
Mackie, who coined the term "error theory" and advocated the view most clearly (1977), described it as a form of "moral skepticism".
The penultimate paragraph to Clark and Chalmers (1998) advocated the view that, to put it colloquially, where mind goes, the self follows: if the mind is extended, for example, so too is the self (see also A. Clark 2001, 2003).
In the long and difficult controversy with the Pelagians, Augustine found his own earlier writings on the will cited by his opponents as evidence that he himself once advocated the view he came so vehemently to oppose [see Retractationes I.9.3 6].
Contents consisting of referents of singular terms and properties expressed by predicates are known as Russellian, because at one time Russell advocated the view that singular terms contribute only their referents to the proposition expressed by sentences in which they occur (or utterances of such sentences).
He is also the nation's leading scholar advocating the view that there is too much emphasis on the separation of church and state and that there should be fewer restrictions on the government's paying for religious-based programs.
They advocate the view that in a specific situation a causally relevant condition is a necessary element of a set of conditions jointly sufficient for the harmful outcome.
This does not mean that they aim to generate skepticism about science, for instance, advocating the view that science does not aim at or occasionally discover truth because its claims are always provisional.
Ward's account might be profitably compared with a similar one provided by Charles Sanders Peirce in his important essay of 1891, 'The Architecture of Theories.' Here, Peirce advocates the view that "the only intelligible theory of the universe is that of objective idealism, that matter is effete mind, inveterate habits becoming physical laws" (153).
Furthermore, due to their new bed fellows, they are advocating the view that not only are pit bulls dangerous, but that they must be slaughtered en masse.
