"Moral philosophers don't take positions so much as explore the issue, offer considerations," she said last week.

But the Italian philosophers known as Pythagoreans take the contrary view.

Many modern philosophers take the view that 'statement' and 'proposition' are synonyms, or ought to be.

The solemn philosophers weren't taking what they said seriously.

And yet some philosophers have taken questions like this one about whiteness very seriously.

The ancient Greek philosophers took such questions very seriously.

On the one hand, many philosophers have taken it to affect merely how we should evaluate Swampman.

More recently, however, philosophers of various stripes have taken different and less hostile approaches to literature.

Other philosophers take a more generous view of Hume's position.